Letter to Congress

Thursday

Sep 5, 2013 at 12:01 AM

Bombing Syria perpetuates threats or uses of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).
We can end all WMDs through treaties.
What is the practical, legitimate and morally defensible way to end all threats or uses of tactics and weapons of mass destruction (biological, chemical and nuclear)?
1. Transform the institutions (military corporations) which have been developed to profit from “safety and security” through threat or use of ever-greater force. This deterrence theory can no longer be “justified,” because it relies on threat or use of WMDs and is thus both unsustainable and unworkable. [For example Raytheon wants to keep making profit without paying for the consequences and so pushes to use on Syria some of its thousands of Tomahawk cruise missiles purchased and deployed by the US Navy. These Tomahawk missiles are probably like those used in Libya in 2011, “stabilized” and/or are “enhanced” with depleted uranium (DU) a heavy metal that is both radioactive and chemically toxic (c.f. “Cruise Missiles with DU used in Libya in 2011,” Prof. M. Zucchetti).
2. Recognize and face the atrocious human and environmental effects of all these tactics or weapons.
3. Recognize that such mass destruction puts at risk the existence of not only targeted societies/ classes/peoples but also the human species itself.
4. Devise and implement steps to eliminate these weapons or tactics such as the Chemical Weapons Convention/Treaty to which the US and most countries are a party and adhere to the agreed upon steps in good-faith. (The US and the Russians failed to meet last year’s treaty deadline they set themselves to eliminate all their chemical weapons). Syria is not a party to the treaty and should be of course.
Anabel Dwyer
Mackinaw City